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details. we wrap it up here. "starting point." i'm going to hop on a plane and get to south carolina. we hand it over to "cnn newsroom." i'll see you back here tomorrow i'll see you back here tomorrow morning. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. we start this hour with that doomed cruise ship off italy and fading hope to find anymore survivors. people are still missing in those frigid waters. two americans. at least 11 people have been killed. rescue operations are on hold again because it's too risky for divers as the cruise ship moves in the water. meanw...

The top 1% pay moderately more than persons in other income groups. but they earn disproportionately more, even taking into account the fact that earn moderately more. so, that's very strong indication that the relative tax burden on the public is more on people in the lower income groups that the higher income groups. and you know, ed -- >> yeah, go ahead. go ahead. >> that can be demonstrated by a very simple question. would you rather pay 70% more in income taxes than other taxpayers in other tax groups if you could earn 1500 to 3,000% more in income? the anticipate is on swer is ob would y...

Questions on it from the irs to one of the tax organizations. soit took us about two weeks to get to be able to persuade the individual to allow us to go forward. i spoke to a number of former colleagues in the tax division and justice department. i worked at the justice department to figure out the best way to approach this, we decided a landmark legal foundation it wasn't so much representing individual groups as putting an tond this and investigating the internal revenue service. that is why we went to the inspector general. and he and his group have done a terrific job representing individ...